Definitions for landline

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landline land·line

Spelling: [land-lahyn]

IPA: /ˈlændˌlaɪn/

Landline is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 213 anagrams from letters in landline (adeillnn).

Definitions for landline

noun

1. a circuit of wire or cable connecting two ground locations.
2. a telecommunications line, service, or connection that uses wire running over land or underground to connect to a network:
3. Also called landline telephone, landline phone. a telephone that is connected by wire to a network.
4. Citizens Band Radio Slang. a telephone.

Origin of landline

First recorded in 1860-65; land + line¹

Examples for landline

Meanwhile, voice—i.e., landline telephone service—also seems to have peaked.

The move is an acknowledgment that the landline business is largely dead and the mobile phone has saturated the world.

During one late-evening delivery, when he saw the office was mostly empty, he asked if he could use the landline.

I cannot believe Annabelle would refuse an iPhone and prefer a landline.